Jan-Werner Mueller for PS Global Bookmark: Liberalism's Forever Crisis

Jan-Werner Mueller argues that some recent critiques misunderstand the liberal project and its objectives. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( JANUARY 5, 2024 Diagnoses of the supposed “crisis of liberalism” have become a booming cottage industry, especially since the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election in the United States. But, writes Princeton's Jan-Werner Mueller, most seem to misapprehend what the liberal political project is really about. [Read more]( [PS Global Bookmark: Liberalism's Forever Crisis]( [Liberalism's Forever Crisis]( By Jan-Werner Mueller Across Western democracies, one finds many who casually dismiss liberalism as a self-justifying ideology for economic “winners” or colonialism. But with conservatives openly fantasizing about imposing their moral orthodoxy on the whole society, liberalism's critics should be careful what they wish for. [Read more]( [PS Holiday Sale: Save $50 on any new subscription.]( [PS Longer Reads: PS Commentators' Predictions for 2024]( [PS Commentators' Predictions for 2024]( with Qian Liu, Ivan Krastev, Ngaire Woods, and more Among the big issues and trends that will dominate attention in the year ahead are threats to democracy, major wars, and looming economic risks. If there is any cause for hope, it will lie in promising innovations and the possibility that the center may yet hold in the face of increasingly destructive political movements. [Read more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.